Parents. Do They Bother You?

I'm gonna kill her. I mean it this time.

*Pauses*

Okay. Maybe not. I mean, I need her to buy me food and all, but my mother is driving me absolutely crazy. We're painting. And she refuses to just hire a painting crew, and is making ME do it with her, and I am so exhausted. We're constantly driving around buying things for the house, and I have to go shop with her, and then we get home and have to paint, and my brother got a new puppy and he can't take her to work with him, so we have to babysit Dummy Dog, who whines all day about nothing, and....I am tired. And mad. She keeps talking and talking and talking, and I'm snapping at her all the time, which makes me even more frustrated, which makes me even more irritable...and so the vicious cycle goes. She's ruining my summer with this.

Anyway, I probably won't kill Mummy, but I can't wait until we're done with this WORK!

Anybody have obnoxious parent stories to tell?

One of the last times I saw my dad, he asked me "Are pregnant or are you just fat?" I looked exactly the same as the last time I saw him. And how do you answer that question anyway?

Oh my gosh! Was he joking? My dad can be soooo cruel when he jokes--he thinks it's funny.

Answer: "Are you blind or are you just mean?" Lol.

Oh, geeze, too bad about your mom.  I wish you had a mom like my children's.  She's  perfect, and lovely,  and so smart!

Lol. Funny.

She's pretty cool. Most of the time. Not right now.

I'm going to take a parents perspective on this and ask why don't you hire a painting crew?  Because, probably like your mom, you either can't afford it or want to save money.

You're tired, you're cranky, but look at the quality time you're having with your mom.  When I was a kid, and I mean still in elementary school, I had to help my family dig out a basement, lay floors, put up drywall, and build the house we were going to live in.  I hated wasting my summers sifting dirt and picking up tools while all of my friends were traveling with their families and having fun.  However, I'm part of my family, I was going to live in that house, too.  No matter how much I hated it at the time, by the time I left that house I hated how I was leaving all of my hard work behind.

Now, if your mom was going to do something completely unfair like buy your unborn child a deluxe bath spa and give you a generic, itchy loofa, then I'd say complain away.

Lol, yeah. I guess I'm just cranky and tired. I do like spending time with Mum--but she talks alot and I like to be more quiet, like my dad. Sometimes, if I'm with her too much, we grate on each other's nerves and I have to go be alone for a while.

Wow! Me and my family built our house too! I was 7, and it was in the mountains, where we used to live. My dad used to build log homes, till the housing market slumped, and now he's a contractor and excavates, though a few weeks ago he was out helping some old family friends build a log barn. (I went. It was fun!) We had a great time building our house, and my mom did the wiring and stuff. High fives to home builders!

Heh I'd be the happiest girl in the world if my Dad was in my life.

Original Post by crazeekid:

 Sometimes, if I'm with her too much, we grate on each other's nerves and I have to go be alone for a while.

 LOL, I am almost 50 years old and I love my mom, but maaaannnn, I can only take her in small doses. I would love to say it gets better, but I'm still waiting!

just think of the calories you burnt doing all that painting 

just think of the calories you burnt doing all that painting 

I'm not a huge parent lover, for my own reasons, but can i ask do you pay rent, hand over money to help with food etc? If not (even if you do i doubt it actually will cover the full cost of keeping you) I don't feel that your mother is being unreasonable to expect you to help out with this.

On the up side at least your summer will have been a productive one and think how good and relieved you will feel when the jobs well done are complete. 

I would give just about anything to be able to paint with my mom, just be gratefull you have one.

I swear I'm going to spike her Tab with Drano.

Original Post by leslazz:

Original Post by crazeekid:

 Sometimes, if I'm with her too much, we grate on each other's nerves and I have to go be alone for a while.

 LOL, I am almost 50 years old and I love my mom, but maaaannnn, I can only take her in small doses. I would love to say it gets better, but I'm still waiting!

 Oh man, I'm almost 50 as well.  Monday I have to take a 3 hour drive with my parents.  My dad is the king of insensitive remarks about me, and mom is the queen of pointing out the obvious (that tree is green).  I do love them, but can only take them in small doses.  I hope we don't see a lot of farm animals, as mom will probably point out "thats a cow".  Moo

My mom drives me nuts.  "What's wrong with your face?" "Its just a zit, mom."  "Did you scratch yourself?" "No, those are stretch marks mom." At least she's not as bad as my grandma. "You make sure you and Levi use those condors, I don't want any great grandbabies yet!"  "....condoms, Mana.  They're called condoms."

yeah i love my mom too. and we are really close, of course i live 8,000 miles away but i really miss her. but growing up i was a sulky teenager and she did get on my nerves. i also have this issue with people smacking, can't eat with certain people and one of them is my mother. i tell her everything really, especially now that im older. she understands tho when i tell her i need some time alone. apparently that was my first full sentence when i was very young, taken from the Grand Hotel movie that apparently I had watched.

I was the same way when I was living with my parents. I can relate--my mother used to exercise her mouth quite a bit too. But I realized something and learned how to deal with it. People who talk and talk just want to talk. So steer the conversation in a direction that would interest you, or find out new things (aka secrets and gossip) about family or friends of the family. Ask questions about things you want to know. Trust me, your mother will be happy to dish the juicy secrets. :)

Sounds bad, but hey, it passed the time and got me in a better mood!

lol I understand what you mean. I love my mom to death, she's helped me through so many things, and I tell her a lot of stuff too (like, stuff I never thought I ever would), but sometimes she really just drives me crazy. But in a different way. My mother's hearing is TERRIBLE. like absolutely dreadful. She'll ask me a question and I'll answer. She doesn't hear me, I answer again...and again. Then by about the fourth time needless to say I'm frustrated, and yelling, so she asks why I'm being "rude" and yelling at her. Gee, maybe because you can't hear me when I speak normally? Haha I know I have bad diction sometimes but constantly repeating myself makes me insane.

Me and my mother are extremely close and we get along extremely well. She doesn't annoy me in the least, she is literally my best friend in the form of my mom. I'd be completely lost if I lost her. I love my mom!